to move by leaps; leap; jump; spring: The colt bounded through the meadow. to rebound, as a ball; bounce: The ball bounded against the wall. a leap onward or upward; jump. a rebound; bounce. Historical Examples

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verb the past tense and past participle of bindadjective in bonds or chains; tied with or as if with a rope: a bound prisoner (in combination) restricted; confined: housebound, fogbound (postpositive, foll by an infinitive) destined; sure; certain: it’s bound to happen (postpositive) , often foll by by. compelled or obliged to act, behave, or think in a particular way, as by duty, circumstance, or convention (of a book) secured within a cover or binding: to deliver bound books See also half-bound (US) (postpositive) , foll by on. resolved; determined: bound on winning (linguistics)

denoting a morpheme, such as the prefix non-, that occurs only as part of another word and not as a separate word in itself Compare free (sense 21) (in systemic grammar) denoting a clause that has a nonfinite predicator or that is introduced by a binder, and that occurs only together with a freestanding clause Compare freestanding

(logic) (of a variable) occurring within the scope of a quantifier that indicates the degree of generality of the open sentence in which the variable occurs: in (x) (Fx → bxy), x is bound and y is free See free (sense 22) bound up with, closely or inextricably linked with: his irritability is bound up with his work I’ll be bound, I am sure (something) is trueverb to move forwards or make (one’s way) by leaps or jumps to bounce; spring away from an impactnoun a jump upwards or forwards by leaps and bounds, with unexpectedly rapid progess: her condition improved by leaps and bounds a sudden pronounced sense of excitement: his heart gave a sudden bound when he saw her a bounce, as of a ballverb (transitive) to place restrictions on; limit when intr, foll by on. to form a boundary of (an area of land or sea, political or administrative region, etc)noun (maths)

a number which is greater than all the members of a set of numbers (an upper bound), or less than all its members (a lower bound) See also bounded (sense 1) more generally, an element of an ordered set that has the same ordering relation to all the members of a given subset whence, an estimate of the extent of some set

See boundsadjective

(postpositive) , often foll by for. going or intending to go towards; on the way to: a ship bound for Jamaica, homeward bound (in combination): northbound traffic

adj. n. v.

bound and determined to bound for bound hand and foot bound to, be bound up in

simple past tense and past participle of bind. tied; in bonds: a bound prisoner. made fast as if by a band or bond: She is bound to her family. secured within a cover, as a book. under a legal or moral obligation: He is bound by the terms of the contract. destined; sure; certain: It […]

giving or disposed to give freely; generous; liberal. freely bestowed; plentiful; abundant. Historical Examples Legends and Lyrics: Second Series Adelaide Anne Procter Natural Law in the Spiritual World Henry Drummond Chips From A German Workshop – Volume I Friedrich Max Mller Latin America and the United States Elihu Root Wanted: A Cook Alan Dale The […]

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